Senior figures may have to speak up

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Just who are the “senior figures within Whitehall” to whom the Bank of
England’s Deputy Governor Paul Tucker referred in his telephone conversation
with Bob Diamond on October 29, 2008?

This is an issue on which Mr Diamond, hopefully, will elaborate when he gives
evidence to the Treasury Select Committee today.

But it would be no surprise to learn that Mr Tucker had been referring to
Baroness Vadera and Lord Myners, who respectively were Minister for Economic
Competitiveness and Small Business and City Minister at the time.

The pair were more than just junior Treasury ministers. Baroness Vadera was
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